"History by apprising [citizens] of the past
will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience
of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions
and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise
it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."
--Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia,
Query 14, 1781
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